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Historian: In the Drindian Empire, censuses were conducted annually to determine the population of each village. Village census records for the last half of the 1600’s are remarkably complete. This very completeness makes one point stand out; in five different years, villages overwhelmingly reported significant population declines. Tellingly, each of those five years immediately followed an increase in a certain Drindian tax. This tax, which was assessed on villages, was computed by the central government using the annual census figures. Obviously, whenever the tax went up, villages had an especially powerful economic incentive to minimize the number of people they recorded; and concealing the size of a village’s population from government census takers would have been easy. Therefore, it is reasonable to think that the reported declines did not happen.

In the historian’s argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

A

The first supplies a context for the historian’s argument; the second acknowledges a consideration that has been used to argue against the position the historian seeks to establish.

分析A选项

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B

The first presents evidence to support the position that the historian seeks to establish; the second acknowledges a consideration that has been used to argue against that position.

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C

The first provides a context for certain evidence that supports the position that the historian seeks to establish; the second is that position.

分析C选项

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D

The first is a position for which the historian argues; the second is an assumption that serves as the basis of that argument.

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E

The first is an assumption that the historian explicitly makes in arguing for a certain position; the second acknowledges a consideration that calls that assumption into question.

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黑体第一句：说明completeness. 后面说根据这个completeness, one point stands out: population declines。再后面都是通过说明一些原因什么的来证明最后一句也就是黑体第二句，作者的观点：declines did not happen。第二部分是作者的结论(position），而不是consideration或assumption.ABE选项是consideration，D是assumption。排除后，剩C。